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If the failure and stupidity of DOGE isn't hammered into people for generations to come then a gross failure will have taken place.
They claimed to want to cut waste but they have destroyed so much revenue it isn't funny.
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Dear Terry: you're starting to come a looooooooooong long way. Seriously!
"what did you vote for then?" name a Trump policy that influenced your vote, please!
"i voted for that abstract thing, that will hurt the people i dont like, but if it hurts me i think trump will come around or say just kidding"-the voter probably.
The one where we kill all the brown people and that magically makes my gas cheaper.
I bet he loves the burning cities and innocent people getting shot in the face because those things don’t affect him personally
Hey, everyone. I enjoy the schadenfreude as much as everyone, but don't blame the conned. Blame the con men
Blame culture isn't a way forward, both the con and the conned hold partial responsibility. Power doesn't come from thin air, and those who voted for this regime helped empower it.
Well, not everyone sees it that way. For example, in Germany, there is the criminal offence of Volksverhetzung. It's a bit hard to translate but it roughly means "incitement of the people" or "instigation to hatred". Why Germany has that criminal code is probably obvious. The point is, the one doing the inciting is criminalised, not those falling for it.
If someone is incited to commit political violence, then the person who committed the violence is held responsible.
What if 35% of the population of a country participated?
like comfy replied: how do you get conned twice by the same man?
Three times, really
How the con worked is worthy of a sociological study. To massively simplify: they play into the hopes and fears of the uneducated.
Some even want a third con!
"Dog ate my homework" ass motherfuckers
trump ate your home and job.
Thanks obama
Yes you did.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico...
Right. You voted for other people to lose their jobs. In reality you voted for and deserve exactly what you're getting.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,”
Ha, I grabbed that quote too.
Narrator Voice: But He did. He actually did vote for this.
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“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,”
You consistently voted for this. Every time conservatives are in power they cut services and environmental protections. You voted for it over and over again but this time it actually hurt you and you're sad.
this time it hurt you in a way that you noticed
also cut TAXES for actual rich people, not for poors whom seem to think they will benefit from such tax cuts for the rich somehow.
According to the american exceptionalism, you are not poor, you are a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire.
So his business is built around serving federal government employees and federal spending, he voted to reduce federal spending and is upset that it negatively affected his business.
Whhhhhaaattt????
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Of course not. He voted for other people to lose their jobs.
Maybe he should reflect on what it's like to be "other people".
If they had empathy, they wouldn't be conservative.
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Awww is someone having a hard time finding his bootstraps? 😁
'I didn't vote this." Yes. Yes you did. You didn't want to hear others tell you what you were voting for. You wanted to believe your own fantasy version. Even now, most MEGA voters want to believe their own fantasy of what Trump will do for America over the truth of what he is actively doing.
thats why they fall for scams quite easily, they trump is just kidding or he suddenly reverses what he does, nope he doesnt. only the 1st term he had people preventing him from doing too much damage, this time no one is going to stop trump and his cronies, conservatives also want to blame democrats, but dems arnt in power anymore.
You did vote for this & you were also warned.
You're just a sucker.
They can get fucked. You wanted this. You got it.
"I believed we were cutting waste in Washington,” Mitchell said in an interview with local news. “I didn’t think they’d fire the people actually fighting fires and maintaining trails. That’s not waste—that’s the actual work.”
It's all actual work. The relentless assault on all federal institutions for the last half century had the initial effect of making the vast majority of them the most efficient systems in existence. Both political parties initially agreed they should not be wasteful, and through several rounds of reform they became more efficient than private organizations doing the same job can even theoretically be. But it's never actually been about "waste," and they stated cutting bone by the early 2000s. The only federal jobs left do actual work, and better, more important work than the vast majority of private sector jobs.
The waste is in private contracts that don't fund public sector jobs. But DOGE didn't go for those.
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Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.
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Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"
"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"
"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"
Conservatives: "We voted for the child rapist."
“WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN”
for white unarmed mother of 3 to be murdered and called a terrorist because she was murdered
God people in rural communities are so stupid when they vote. I live in a very lopsided state. Just for ease of understanding, about 80% of the state is rural, but also 80% of the people live in the cities. Rural folks often forget just how many more people live in cities.
So they get resentful and say "why are MAH tax dollars going to all them city folks"! I've had this talk so many times with them, why should they pay (like pennies or their salary) to my city improvements just because they're state taxes?
Well, rural guy, because in actuality "us city folk" subsidize all of the rural state. They think they're paying for our stuff but turns out density is way cheaper and way more economically viable than rural. So we subsidize them all the time. I always remind them who do they think pays for the roads, the infrastructure, their state parks? It's not them and their low tax income. Their life depends on the city people
And then they vote to hurt us by cutting programs... And forget that we were paying for them to be on those programs.
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The workers who lost their jobs weren’t desk-bound administrators. They were firefighters, trail maintenance crews, wildlife biologists, rangers, foresters, and seasonal workers who kept public lands accessible and safe. They were the people who made it possible for outfitters, guides, hunters, ranchers, and tourism operators to do business.
try doing that without fesk-bound administrators and see how it goes
Do people just not understand how voting works, or what the word means? Do they maybe think it's short for Devote?
We tried to fucking tell you chucklefucks what was going to happen if Trump was elected. Project 2025 laid it all out plain as day but you still fucking gargled his shit covered balls so fuck you fuck you fuck you.
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I didn’t vote for this
Edit: Pardon the comma splice. I found such cheese.
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